Viejas y nuevas pandemias. Un recorrido por la historia (Spanish Edition)

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Author : Jesús Álvarez
Genre : Biography & Autobiography

Summary : El SARS-CoV-2, origen de la pandemia del coronavirus, llegó a España a finales de febrero de 2020 procedente de Italia y sumió en un desconcierto generalizado, que duró casi tres meses, a todas las autoridades políticas y sanitarias españolas. Por esas fechas nada se sabía de ese virus, del que no existía vacuna ni medicamentos para combatirlo. Este libro retrata esos noventa días de miedo e incertidumbre (también de entrega y solidaridad) en el Hospital Virgen del Rocío de Sevilla, el segundo más grande de España, con cerca de diez mil profesionales en nómina. El autor ha reconstruido lo vivido en ese centro sanitario desde el 14 de marzo de 2020, cuando llegó el primer paciente Covid a su UCI, hasta que se le dio el alta al último a mediados de junio. El relato de esta primera ola de la pandemia se hace a través de veinte voces que cuentan en primera persona lo que va ocurriendo de forma cronológica y la evolución de los acontecimientos: desde una enfermera de UCI al borde de una depresión o el jefe de Urgencias que debe gestionar la avalancha de pacientes Covid a un auxiliar encargado de distribuir mascarillas y EPI (equipos de protección especial) entre el personal del hospital, o un celador de la planta sexta del Hospital General (la de Enfermedades Infecciosas) donde se aislaba a los pacientes infectados para que no contagiaran al resto. Los protagonistas de este relato son médicos, investigadores, enfermeros, auxiliares, celadores y varios pacientes que estuvieron a punto de perder su vida por culpa del coronavirus y con los que el autor pudo hablar después de que salieran de la UCI.

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Author : Noble David Cook
Genre : History

Summary : In the wake of European expansion, disease outbreaks in the New World caused the greatest loss of life known to history. Post-contact Native American inhabitants succumbed in staggering numbers to maladies such as smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus, against which they had no immunity. A collection of case studies by historians, geographers, and anthropologists, "Secret Judgments of God" discusses how diseases with Old World origins devastated vulnerable native populations throughout Spanish America. In their preface to the paperback edition, the editors discuss the ongoing, often heated debate about contact population history.

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Author : John M. Barry
Genre : History

Summary : #1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.

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Author : José Ramón Alonso Pereira
Genre : Architecture

Summary : Este libro recoge con una visión general y unitaria, el devenir de la arquitectura occidental a través del tiempo, desde sus orígenes remotos hasta nuestra misma contemporaneidad. No es ni pretende ser una historia convencional de la arquitectura, sino una introducción a su estudio que desvele sus claves y permita acceder a su realidad tanto al profesional como al aficionado, y especialmente a quien se acerca a la arquitectura por primera vez.

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Author : World Commission On The Social Dimension Of Globalization
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Author : Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
Genre : Business & Economics

Summary : New and expanded edition. An International Bestseller - Over One Million Copies Sold! Shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But this ideology is fading. In the age of big data, we can crunch an incomprehensible amount of information, providing us with invaluable insights about the what rather than the why. We're just starting to reap the benefits: tracking vital signs to foresee deadly infections, predicting building fires, anticipating the best moment to buy a plane ticket, seeing inflation in real time and monitoring social media in order to identify trends. But there is a dark side to big data. Will it be machines, rather than people, that make the decisions? How do you regulate an algorithm? What will happen to privacy? Will individuals be punished for acts they have yet to commit? In this groundbreaking and fascinating book, two of the world's most-respected data experts reveal the reality of a big data world and outline clear and actionable steps that will equip the reader with the tools needed for this next phase of human evolution.

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Author : Francisco GAVALDA
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